Oliver Ready

Oliver Ready has translated several books from the Russian, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, short fiction by Nikolai Gogol and Yuri Buida, and three earlier novels by Vladimir Sharov. A selection of Sharov's essays, translated and edited with Caryl Emerson, is forthcoming in 2027. He teaches Russian at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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